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Introduction: Bazinian adaptation: The butcher boy as example / Colin MacCabe -- The economies of adaptation / Dudley Andrew -- Literary appropriation and translation in early cinema: adapting Gerhardt Hauptmann's Atlantis in 1913 / Tom Gunning -- Hearts of darkness: Joseph Conrad and Orson Welles / James Naremore -- Max Ophuls's auteurist adaptations / Laura Mulvey -- To have and have not: an adaptive system / Kathleen Murray -- Happier with dreams: constructing the lisbon girls through nondiegetic sound in The virgin suicides / Stephanie McKnight -- Universalizing a nation and the adaptation of Trainspotting / Shelagh Patterson -- Getting away with homage: the alternative universes of Ghost world / Jonathan Loucks -- Indexing an icon: T.E. Lawrence's Seven pillars of wisdom and David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia / Alison Patterson -- Shades of horror: fidelity and genre in Stanley Kubrick's The shining / Jarrell D. Wright -- Contempt revisited: Godard at the margins of adaptation / Rick Warner -- Afterword: Adaptation as a philosophical problem / Fredric Jameson

Includes bibliographical references and index

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